Re: Security of the browsers
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Andrei Popescu
<andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Du, 13 mar 11, 19:30:30, Dan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been using Ubuntu for a while for my desktop and I am planning
>> to come back to Debian stable because there is now a two-year release
>> cycle which is more reasonable.
>
> Debian does not have a fixed release cycle, and probably never will.
> Maybe a fixed freeze cycle, but this is still not decided. OTOH the last
> three releases (etch, lenny and squeeze) were approximately 2 years
> apart, are you talking about sarge?
>
Yes I think that I was using woody or sarge and it took for ever to
update. Then I switched to Ubuntu.
>> My worried is related with the security of the browser. The Ubuntu
>> approach is to use the latest version of mozilla or the chromium
>> project.
>>
>> The Debian approach is to freeze the version and apply themselves the
>> patches. In my opinion this is worse because the mozilla/chromium
>> project should know better the problems/security issues related with
>> their browsers right?
>>
>> Can I consider these frozen versions secure enough.
>>
>> How secure is the chromium browser in Debian? It is an and old release the 6.
>
> You seem to assume Debian Developers will write the security patches
> themselves. AFAIK patches are mostly backported and chromium might be
> updated since it is a leaf package. The Release Notes for squeeze have
> more info.
What do you mean by leaf package?
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